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India bars Yahoo video stream

T-Series broadens online content fight in court

NEW DELHI -- An Indian court injunction has stopped Yahoo from streaming content from popular Bollywood film label T-Series, broadening the Mumbai company's legal battle begun last November against Google and YouTube.

Bollywood film production banner T-Series parent Super Cassette Industries Ltd. obtained an interim injunction order from the New Delhi High Court against Yahoo Inc. and its Mumbai-based subsidiary Yahoo Web Services India to prevent the portal from streaming T-Series content.

Vinod Bhanushali, T-Series vice president of marketing said in an interview Thursday that parent co SCIL first sent Yahoo India a legal notice on February 27 complaining about streaming of unpermissioned content such as clips from the 2007 hit film "Om Shanti Om."

Then, in March, T-Series then sent another notice to Yahoo and then the matter then went to court. The injunction order obtained on May 30 “restricts Yahoo from streaming any T-Series content. The case will come up for hearing in September,” Bhanushali said.

Yahoo declined to comment. T-Series parent co SCIL obtained a similar restraining order against Google and YouTube in November 2007, the first by any Indian entertainment company against Google. That case will come up for hearing in July.